Arduino hack turns Space Invaders alarm into Gmail Notifier (video)
Glaswegian engineer Grant Gibson spied a Space Invaders alarm clock being flogged off cheap ($5) and decided it deserved hacking. When activated, the battery-powered unit scuttled left to right, old-school style as it roused sleepy gamers but Mr
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Arduino hack turns Space Invaders alarm into Gmail Notifier (video)
Passware claims FileVault 2 can be cracked in under an hour, sells you the software to prove it
Lunch hours may never feel safe again.
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Passware claims FileVault 2 can be cracked in under an hour, sells you the software to prove it
NES controller lets you stomp Koopas, save Princess Peach in capacitive fashion (video)
Is your NES controller in another castle? Maybe you’re just pining for your smartphone’s capacitive game controls for some reason
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NES controller lets you stomp Koopas, save Princess Peach in capacitive fashion (video)
Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good
First, an apology: Microsoft released details of Windows 8′s tablet hardware requirements back in December, but we were too preoccupied with Christmas and CES to notice. Now that the only thing we’re suffering from is jet-lag, let’s take a quick tour of some notable extracts from the documentation and what it’ll mean for users when the operating system arrives towards the back end of the year.
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 hardware requirements: some good, some not-so-good
A spreadsheet based music tracker: get ready to rock your accounts (video)
Art and geekery : two sides of the same coin. A fact wonderfully demonstrated by this spiffy spreadheet-based music sequencer. Live-coder and all-round music hacker Patrick — aka cappel:nord — spotted the LibreOffice spreadsheet’s sonic potential and decided to work his magic.
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Android-style FaceUnlock ported to iOS (video)
Just because it’s CES doesn’t mean that other amazing innovations aren’t going on elsewhere. We’ve spotted this video of an app being built (from scratch) for iOS that duplicates the FaceUnlock technology we know and love on Android 4.0
Red Digital Cinema sues competitor Arri over e-mail hacking, adds new charges to the list
The behind-the-lens drama between camera makers Red Digital Cinema and Arri has taken yet another step recently, as Red filed suit December 21st against Arri alleging corporate espionage.
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Red Digital Cinema sues competitor Arri over e-mail hacking, adds new charges to the list
Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set
How can we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing — at the year’s end — to appreciate where it all came from?
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Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set
Arduino hack lights up the tree with every email, spammers get in spirit
The holidays are all about eggnog, ugly sweaters and disconnecting from the internet just long enough to reassure the family you still care. For those of us with web separation anxiety, the folks at MAKE have hooked us up with an easy way to stay hip to incoming emails — by connecting the holiday fir to the Internets
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Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town (video)
Does Arduino coding bring you out in a cold sweat? Perhaps what you need is the new open-source gear from TinkerForge
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Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town (video)